Volume pricing discounts apply if the user has spent over $12,000 over the last 12 months (not including the current order) AND the current order is for six or more samples. Express requests are not eligible for volume discounts.

All invoices are sent and due at the time that you submit your samples. There is a 1.5% late fee after 60 days, compounding every 60 days thereafter.

The Columbia Genome Center reserves the right to modify this price list and any discounts to account for changes in operations costs and pricing of consumables.

Pricing does not include specific additional bioinformatics or non-standard library preparation

For mammalians we require each sample to have a RIN > 8 as determined by a Agilent Bioanalyzer RNA chip. Please submit the Bioanalyzer report, with your samples clearly labeled. The report should be no more than 1 week old.

For an RNA-seq gene expression experiment for a mammalian genome, we generally recommend a minimum of 30 million reads per sample. For sequencing projects that require higher accuracy — such as studies of alternate splicing — 60 million paired-end reads will provide better results. For more detailed analyses to determine, for example, allele-specific expression or expression of low-abundant transcripts, 60 million to 100 million reads may be required.